Friday 5 March 2021: Evolving Transport News

Thanks for tuning in to ET News over the past twelve months to hear updates from our workstreams as part of our program. This will be our last ET News as the program transitions into the everyday business. We hope you enjoy our last lot of stories and feel free to reach out to us for any matters related to Evolving Transport.

The Transformation Office will continue to work behind-the-scenes to support and ensure that the new ways of working, systems and frameworks as set out in our 13 workstreams, are implemented and embedded across the divisions.

Our milestones and achievements

As way to start our final edition, let’s take a quick look at some of the milestones and key achievements from the program and workstreams.

These infographics highlight some large and complex tasks including:

  • the organisational design for Groups A and B branches
  • renegotiated procurement contracts to save tens of millions of dollars
  • fast tracked the way we connect through the use of Teams and livestreams, and
  • brought together RMS and TfNSW’s $29.7 billion portfolio and more than 11,000 employees into one enterprise financial management system.

All of this work and more are ensuring our people are equipped to meet the four primary outcomes defined in our 10-Year-Bluepint.

Our Future Energy Strategy and Action Plan

Transport is committed to securing our transport energy needs from sustainable sources so we can have zero emissions by 2050. In order for us to deliver on this, we needed to integrate environment and sustainability planning into all projects. As a result we decided to develop a Future Energy Strategy and Action Plan that includes:

  • Transitioning to net-zero electricity for light rail, electric rail, metro and zero-emission buses by 2025
  • Transitioning to zero-emission buses by 2030
  • By 2025, achieving 70 per cent of our newly leased or purchased passenger pool fleet to be low-emission vehicles and 20 per cent of new passenger vehicles purchased or leased to be battery-electric or hydrogen fuel cell
  • Maximising use of our assets for renewable-energy generation such as solar panels on our commuter car parks
  • Undertaking hydrogen bus trials

Future Energy is an important part of the Sustainability Action Plan for Transport which we are currently building. Look out for the links on the Evolving Transport Environment and Sustainability page to find out more about Future Energy soon.

Visible leadership across our organisation

Engaging our leaders across Transport was a key focus set out in our Leadership, Culture and Behaviour Workstream. Before the Program started, the capacity to reach our people leaders for communications and engagement at one time was 800 people and our aim was to increase this substantially.

The onset of Coronavirus brought the need to communicate with our leaders including those across our regions and on the frontline in different ways. Taking our set-out leadership strategy, and the move of many of our workforce to remote working and online connections, we launched a livestream series in March 2020 where people leaders could listen first-hand to Secretary and senior leaders’ updates, ask questions, make comments, and watch on their devices from their home or workplace. This allowed us to provide critical information and lead our people during a time of uncertainty.

Since March, we’ve held a total of 39 livestreams with 49,090 views, 61 guests, and 4157 questions asked. A mammoth effort and great success that the People Leader Livestreams will continue as a key communication channel.

Diversity and inclusion commitments

As part of the Transformation Program we focused on improving how we deliver for our customers, and having a diverse workforce is part of this. We want a workforce and culture that is reflective of the many customers and communities we serve in Transport.  

The Talent Diversity Champions group has been set up with this in mind. They aim to raise more awareness, increase proactive searches, and target groups so we can target more diverse candidates to our organisation including the work to engage people-with-disability-providers in regional NSW. This group meets monthly to discuss and share learnings and ideas from other diversity groups within and outside of Transport.

Some specific areas that are being targeted at present are:

  • City-east mentor program to engage with skilled asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees – it expands our talent pool so that we can assist them to look for jobs – we at Transport can potentially engage them.
  • Clontarf foundation – 10,500 school age indigenous boys in the national program – supporting boys through sport to finish their schooling and move onto internships, apprenticeships, traineeships, etc.
  • NRL rugby league school to work program – working with indigenous boys and girls to get internships and graduate programs that can potentially go into Transport.

You can join the meetings and get involved or just come along to hear guest speakers by contacting talent@transport.nsw.gov.au

Also, have a look at our diversity dashboard to see how we are tracking with our targets.


Evolving Transport Transformation Program

You can always check back and find all the latest information on the Evolving Transport Stay Informed site and bookmark the page.